UK weather 2017 in pictures

Britain's weather in pictures

People take cover from the rain in Cambridge as the weather goes from Sun to rain in moments. 11/09/17

She said: “Maria is currently a category-3 storm, it is going to engulf Jose before being picked up by the jet stream and brought over the Atlantic to us.

“There is still a lot of uncertainty around this outcome, but if Maria keeps the winds strengths we could be looking at an ex-hurricane situation.

“If it does come this way it would probably be renamed in line with the British system, so could generate Storm Brian.

“We expect this to start happening from the first Monday in October.”

The Met Office said Britain’s weather will widely turn more unsettled from around the middle of next week.

IG

Britain’s weather will turn much more unsettled from mid-week

Forecaster Oli Claydon said this weekend will bring a northwest-southeast split with the far fringes of Scotland and the western coasts likely to catch the worst of the weather.

He said: “There will be some rainfall in the northwest this weekend and some further south although this is not looking as bad as we originally thought.

“It will be blustery around Scotland with gusts of between 47 mph and 54 mph possible in parts, for the rest of the country it will be largely dry and warm.

“We retain this Scandinavian high blocking pattern which is keeping unsettled weather systems from the Atlantic at bay until the middle of next week when it starts to weaken.

“This will allow low pressure to encroach in from the west, impacts are more likely in the northwest with the southeast having the best chance of staying settled.

GETTY

Hurricane Maria and Jose threaten to join forces and smash the UK shortly after next weekend

“However we are going to see more changeable weather by the end of next week.”

Jim Dale, forecaster for British Weather Services, said unsettled conditions will be given a boost by a shift in the jet stream.

He said the jet – a rapidly flowing ribbon of air which circulates at high altitude – will dip southwards creating a conveyor belt effect across Britain.

He said: “The active zone is now level with Ireland as the jet stream dips southwards into our part of the Atlantic.

“We have a low pressure system affecting the weather in the northwest this weekend, but thanks to the high pressure to the east it will not affect the rest of the country.

“South of this parent low we expect to see further systems spawning from it, and into next week there is the risk of another intense low pressure bringing increasing winds and gales to the west of the country.

“Next weekend is going to be interesting, especially as the blocking high to the east of Britain starts to migrate further from us.”